9/01/2009 @ 6:00PM

In Depth: America's Most Entertaining Cities

Rankings determined by each metropolitan statistical area’s (MSAs)–geographic entities defined by the
U.S. Office of Management and Budget for use by federal agencies in collecting, tabulating and publishing federal statistics–number of bars, restaurants, nightclubs, live theater venues, museums and sporting venues, using data from AOL City Guides. We added the number of major league or WNBA sports teams, and also factored in each city’s ranking on Forbes’ list of
Best Cities for the Outdoors . We gave each city a rank in each category, based on its number of each type of venue and then averaged those rankings, along with the city’s ranking on our Best Cities for the Outdoors list, to reach our final ranking.